Say you’re sick. You’re coughing up a lot of blood, you’re always sick and bouncing back and forth from the doctor, and you’ve got chronic pneumonia. Well, you might never know what’s going on, unless you’ve read PopFi’s previous articles. Why do I make such a bold pronouncement? Well, it took John Manely months to get an inch-long piece of plastic fork extracted from his lung, but if he read our site, he’d know that he was suffering from the same symptoms as the man with the fir tree in his lung.
Of course, the only downside to this news is that, unlike Manley, I’ll skip going to my local sawbones and go straight to a lung expert like Dr. Momen Wahidi. After all, I know what to expect now if I get something stuck in my lung, and since I’ve seen it happen twice now (with different materials), I’m probably going to leap right into that expectation if I ever cough up any blood. If it happened to them, it’s bound to happen to me.
I don’t see how someone could inhale a piece of tree or the handle from a spoon/fork without knowing it, but I tend to be a really fast eater, too. If anyone’s a prime candidate to inhale something weird and pointy, it’s me. I’ve come close to this very same fate a few times, since we’re being honest with one another. I’m just going to start counting how often I chew a mouthful of food, just to be safe.
Tags: Wendy’s, Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, spoon stuck in lung, plastic in lung, John Manley, Wilmington, Delaware, Momen Wahidi
